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Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen
2.0

This was a #mmdsummerreading pick this year, and while I loved the premise, the writing style fell a little flat for me. It’s about an Asian American girl with dreams of being a dancer (while her parents want her to be a doctor) who gets sent to Taiwan to spend the summer in an immersion program that’s not quite what it seems. It’s fun, a cute coming-of-age story full of tension between obligations and dreams with added family pressure, and it has a sweet ending, but it just didn’t blow me away.